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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

Strategic Account Management Association

By Dave Duke, Co-Founder and CCO, MetaCX, and Joel Schaafsma, Research General Manager, SAMA. In business, it has created an opportunity to reflect on how companies are managing customers, and it has given customers a window of opportunity to re-evaluate their supplier relationships to determine which partnerships are truly valuable.

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Ten insights on the future of SAM

Strategic Account Management Association

As conveners of the largest community in the world dedicated to strategic and key account management, one of SAMA’s foundational purposes is to help our community both adapt to what’s happening right now and prepare for what may happen next. Panelists: Jennifer Stanley, Partner, McKinsey & Co.;

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Servitization 101 – How servitization can strengthen your relationship with your key accounts

Strategic Account Management Association

By Neil Tumber , Relationship Manager , Advanced Services Grou. Advanced services are propositions, where the provider (for example, a manufacturer) engages in an in-depth customer interaction with an extensive capability integration in a process of co-creation that creates a service to deliver functional value to that customer.

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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader? Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader? ? On September 15th, more than eighty Key Account Managers (KAM) assembled in Copenhagen and online for a hybrid event. October 11, 2021. October 11, 2021. Back to blog. The KAM role continues to evolve.

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How to Identify Key Accounts: A Quick Guide to Getting it Right

Account Manager Tips

You're sitting on a goldmine of existing customers that: can deliver an above-average revenue growth; want to invest in your partnership; will co-create value in ways that neither of you could do alone. Portrait Software became a key account, and within 18 months, that partnership led to winning the larger Pitney Bowes business.

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The Importance of Co-Creating Value with Every Strategic Customer

Account Manager Tips

20 ways to encourage value co-creation with your customers Favourite collaboration app Listener tip In other news Quote of the week. And what if we take it one step further and ask what it means to "co-create value" with our customers? Which is why co-creation is so powerful. Don’t waste time on the wrong accounts.

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10 Trends – Annual International Marketing Benchmark by PM Forum and Meridian West

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56% represented law firms, 18% accountancy firms, 9% property and construction firms, 5% management consultancy, 5% intellectual property and 8% other. Nearly two-third of firms (63%) place this among their top three management priorities. Improving/establishing account management. Develop people’s commerciality.

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